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Wawata Topu - Mermaids of Timor-Leste| 32mins
Director: David Palazon | Producer: Enrique Alonso
Focus Years: 2013 | Country: East Timor
Subject Tags: asia, community, east timor, food, livelihood, water
Quality Tags: Optimistic, Slow, Activating, Harmonizing
Synopsis:
Wawata Topu (Women Divers in Rasua dialect) is an award winning documentary about four generations of fisherwomen striving to make a living in the coastal village of Adara, West Ataúro in Timor-Leste. Their daily lives, their economic practices and their vital concerns, as well as the contradicting discourses and social barriers they face, are shown in this ethnographic portrait that makes visible their critical contribution to the household economies and the fishing community at large. Their underwater dancing takes place in a context of rapid social change, where the generalization of the formal education, the progressive consolidation of western moral values and the potential openness of more attractive livelihoods not linked to the sea, seem to be forging a social negotiation of the household economic strategies initiated by the oldest generation during the 50’s.
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